Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says, that are most natural to him.

He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.

I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.

This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285)

why something and not nothing? why music and not noise?